Working Together to Safeguard Children guidance consultation

The Department for Education (DfE) has launched a consultation on the Working Together to Safeguard Children guidance.This consultation seeks views on three statutory guidance documents:

Working Together to Safeguard Children: draft guidance on what is expected of organisations, individually and jointly, to safeguard and promote the welfare of children;

Managing Cases: the Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and their Families: draft guidance on undertaking assessments of children in need; and

Statutory Guidance on Learning and Improvement: proposed new arrangements for Serious Case Reviews (SCRs), reviews of child deaths and other learning processes led by Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCBs).